The Happiest Days

Even happy days come to an end. In this remarkable collection, Cressida Connolly explores the lives of children and young people who, in the wake of life-altering events, find themselves split in two. A conversation on a trip to the zoo - words that caan't be held back - heralds the end of a family; a boy watches his father fold Aunt Rose into his arms and loses his vocation; in an alarming account of sibling rivalry, a young girl grows jealous of the attention paid to her dying sister.

Each of these finely crafted stories is its own forceful and separate world where familiar emotions - love, loss, jealousy, loneliness - are dissected and shown anew. With this collection, Cressida Connolly makes an exciting and stunningly original debut.


Genre: General Fiction